VANTAGE ART PROJECTS - ION Magazine #54 Interview

Pick up ION Magazine #54 (with its swanky new re-design) and turn immediately to page 34 for the skinny on Vantage Art Projects and our FRESH PICKS limited editions. Angela Grossman, Sandra Lopuch/Ben Edmiston and Mark Delong's editions are the featured illustrations for the article.

Thank you Michael M, Samantha L and Vanessa L.

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What we've been up to...Vantage News to date.

November 16, 2008 -FRESH PICKS VOLUME ONE, EDITION THREE released yesterday, November 16, 2008. "Its Third Fall" by Carrie Walker has an old masters feel while being true to Carrie's contemporary drawing based practice.

October 30, 2008 - FRESH PICKS VOLUME ONE, EDITION TWO released today. "Phone Home at Midnight" by Mark DeLong is a unique, collage and mixed media artwork in Mark's signature urban outsider style.

October 19, 2008 - Fresh Picks annual subscriptions to Volume One now available through the Vantage Art Projects Website.

October 9, 2008 - FRESH PICKS first limited edition "Meander" an exclusive artwork by Angela Grossmann goes on sale today, Thursday, October 9, 2008 from www.VantageArtProjects.com.

October 5, 2008 - FRESH PICKS and Vantage Art Projects successfully launched during Art Toronto. Our first limited edition "Meander" by Angela Grossmann goes on sale Thursday, October 9, 2008 from www.VantageArtProjects.com.

September 19, 2008 - Our safe subscribe mailing list sends out our first e-blast - news about the upcoming launch of Fresh Picks and our very, exciting first artist! Fresh Picks is launching at Art Toronto at a private VIP reception Oct. 5, 2008.

August 19, 2008 - Vantage Art Projects now offers e-newsletter updates about projects, products and calls for submission using Constant Contact and "safe subscribe".

July 31, 2008 - Luisa Santos joins the Vantage Art Projects team as our project coordinator. Welcome Luisa!

July 21, 2008 - Vantage Art Projects web site goes live with initial information about this "new way of communicating about the arts". The principals are Sherri Kajiwara and Jennifer Mawby, with project coordinator Luisa Santos.

"Phone Home at Midnight" by Mark DeLong - FRESH PICKS V1 E2

For Immediate Release - Vancouver, BC, October 30, 2008 – Vantage Art Projects is thrilled to present Fresh Picks, our series of affordable limited edition fine art prints.

"Phone Home at Midnight" by Mark Delong is the second edition in the first Fresh Picks series. This artwork incorporates collage and computer graphics with drawing and painting. Done in Mark's signature "urban outsider" style, the artwork is bold, whimsical and playful, and punctuated by vivid day-glo accents.

Mark is a self-taught Vancouver-based artist working in sculpture, video, printing and painting. His work has been shown to a steadily expanding audience. Early this year, TV Books (of "Tiny Vices" fame) published Sbooky Booky his first monograph of drawings, paintings and comics (www.tvbookshop.com). Mark is currently preparing for a sixteen-page spread for Pyramid Power with fellow Canadian artist Jason McLean. The images from that series will be used in an upcoming group show at the Nog Gallery in London, England. To date, he has participated in numerous group shows around Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

Fresh Picks is Vantage Art Projects' series of affordable limited edition fine art prints. The series allows art lovers to own work that is current and representative of the contemporary artscape. It is an unprecedented way for artists to share their work with collectors and art lovers across the world. Released twice a month, the artist and work is first announced to our mailing list and is sold exclusively through the Vantage Art Projects website.

"Phone Home by Midnight" is a unique opportunity to collect an image from Mark's interesting and innovative body of work. It is only available through the Vantage website. For information on Mark DeLong, visit www.bambi.org.uk. He is represented by LES Gallery in Vancouver, BC, TV Gallery in New York and Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery in Padova, IT. Get Mark's FRESH PICK while we can still say that we knew him when...www.vantageartprojects.com